Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

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There are some types of content that have worked in the last 8 weeks or so that will not work in either of the two newer studios - no doubt we'll simply just go back to doing soft and sensitive aspects in extremely unwelcome and clinical environments once more.

The coverage in the last 8 weeks has been far superior than the several weeks before it because of the versatility of the old studio and every segment that has been on has been able to come from a suitable place.

Do you really think they are going to get able to get bands in with the terrible sound in the glass box and also large groups of people in either studio without it looking too crowded?

Do you really think the press preview's are as laid back when the presenters and guests have a massive table between them that makes it look like a formal job interview?

Because in my view the press previews have been far better coming from a soft area and honestly for the soft segements guests have looked far more relaxed from the shoebox and it's soft feeling than looking like they getting a grilling from HR in a meeting room.

The glass box feels too small to be genuinely multi-purpose. Yes, they've done different things in it, but it just feels like its too small to do much more than desk in front of backdrop or desk in front of screen.

There isn't really a lot of flexibility there.

Hopefully they have just picked a poor photo. But if that's all there is, it's pretty disappointing. It looks to be as much space as BBC Breakfast which is always flagged as far too small.

It's very early to judge, though it tends to be the case that many members make up their minds pretty quickly and then stick to what they have said about it.

I have to admit from what we can see from the image I really don't mind the look of the studio. It looks like a fairly standard news studio, by no ways revolutionary, but then it wasn't supposed to be - it is, after all, a secondary studio. That said, I can see what others have said in comparison to it looking a bit like a regional news studio.

I'm not sure whether there will be another part to this set, somehow I doubt it, but I do agree with what many others have said and I think that having a soft area to the studio may work well for some features, such as the Press Preview.

Looking at Sky News generally, I do sort of wish that they had taken a franceinfo approach, as described by another member, as I do really like the concept of what they do and the move into the new building would have been a great time to do it and a way to really differentiate it from competitors such as the BBC.

That said, while it is a shame that they have chosen to follow a more traditional approach, I personally can't agree that the content over the last few weeks has been enhanced to any great degree by the old studio. To me, the coverage has been pretty similar to what we have seen from the glass box and while I did really like the old studio, I feel that it have if anything it has looked quite dated since they temporarily moved back in, with its garish and slightly overpowering colour scheme and the fact it looks quite unloved to me.

Back to the new studio though, I fear that they will primarily make use of close-up shots of the presenters rather than any wider shots or TOTH sequence which I think will be a real shame if this is the case from a presentation point of view. However, they are a news channel and they are likely more focused on attracting new viewers with interesting stories and quality of journalism.

I look forward to seing the new studio in action!

What sort of flexibility do you need? Maximum two presenters, sometimes a couple of guests. It's a news programme, not Blue Peter

I've looked through your posts and I can find no criticism of the old studio over the 14 years it was the main studio - may I ask why that is if you believe that it was so overkill as you are now suggesting when you never expressed these views before?

Desk bound presentation is why Sky News has been on the decline from a presentation point of view the soft aspects are awful in the glass box as are the press previews, they feel far better in the old studio and far more relaxed and I feel both guests open up more and the press preview has a more relaxed and often humour filled time.

If this new studio is small, where are they going to do the big election programmes from? Will they split them across the new and the glass box?

It looks about half the size of the studio used by BBC Breakfast.


If Sunrise won't be broadcast from the new studio until Wednesday morning, does anyone know when the first broadcast will be on Tuesday (and first use of the new logo)?

Can't see them using the glass box, it's too small but then again the new studio might be too.

The fact they refreshed the old studio especially for the election rather than using their fancy new glass box speaks volumes about the suitability of the glass box.

Or do what they did for 2015, and use a different studio. Sky have a range of studios available on the site these days, they don't need to build their news studios around a once in 5 years programme.



Or more, that they had the old studio available, and it wasn't in daily use in the run up to the elections allowing them to do the integration and rehearsals such an event needs without disrupting the normal programming.

Some segments work better on a sofa, rather than behind a desk. Sometimes, like in one of the pictures shown at the top of page 200, you have more than 2 guests. Some segments require a large clear area to display either a group, like the mariachi band again at the top of page 200, or a large-ish piece of portable equipment that is a key part of a story.

I don't see the glass box being able to fulfill those roles. I'd hope that there's some space in the new studio to the left of what we see in the picture, where those roles could be fulfilled, but I don't know at this point.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but even though Adam was in a different studio they were still using the old Sky News studio for quite a few segments of the program and used the big screen for stuff as well?



Or simply they made the sensible decision that having a results center with all the people working in it right next to the studio and within easy reach was far sensible than having it in a glass box that was in a completely different building to where all the staff who were working on the program were based.

Even with the newsroom now in the same building as the glass box for an event like an election you're going to have to have people going backwards and forwards between the two since whilst there is some small space behind the glass box there is nowhere near enough to house the amount of people who will be working on the program.

All the Elections to date have had the anchor in the studio with a large number of people directly around them or close to the set, with the glass box that is no longer going to be the case because of the sheer reduction in size of the area that is available to them

The general election coverage for the last two elections and the EU Referendum coverage has been first class - I just struggle to see how they are going to pull such things off again - what worries me is that these are the things that I feel are the things Sky News does really really well and it's not broke so certainly doesn't need fixing.